Lewis agreed that an ICQ account can be as important as a telephone line. She also reminded users not to open suspicious JPEG email attachments. Users of the ICQ messenger (owned by the Mail.Ru Group) reported malfunctions in the application, the company partially eliminated them, RIA Novosti reported, citing the press service of the IT company. AOL must have saw the writing on the wall as it offloaded ICQ to Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies (today known as Group) in 2010 for 187.5 million. Somebody didn't go in and break into the database of ICQ," Lewis emphasized. Mail.Ru: ICQ user data is safe, problems are fixed. "The system was not compromised in any way. In any case, Lewis said users can retrieve their ICQ account numbers by sending email to If users indicate they've had their number stolen, ICQ will return it within 24 hours after the user is verified, she said. The perpetrators have not been identified or stopped. The company also develops mobile applications operates ICQ, Agent, and TamTam instant messengers and develops and publishes games for various. The topic was planned as a topic-link, but Habr swears at a URL. ICQ does not show you your UIN by default. Now you have your ICQ account But at the moment, you can only login with Kopete using UINs (Unified Identification Number).
click on the verification link in your e-mail to verify you registration.
The program emailed the user's ICQ password back to the sender. IM clients Agent and ICQ, as well as social networks Moi Mir and Classmates. Now you have to wait until you get an e-mail from ICQ, which contains your verification link. When users opened the attached file, instead of opening a JPEG image, the attachment loaded a small malicious program. Over the last month, ICQ users have received an email message containing an attached file disguised as a JPEG. Users' passwords were obtained by way of simple email trickery, Lewis said. All my family and new friends are using a bunch of different networks. The only people left that I still talk to are the same people I talked to back in 1998. However, I admit that its pretty much dead. She said the number of reported incidents is less than 200. ICQ is a low overhead email, like Verizons 'Push To Talk' is a low overhead Cell Phone call. AOL spokesperson Regina Lewis said the company has been aware of the problem for as long as a month and has a mechanism in place so users can get their number back.